Spontaneous rupture of the spleen during malaria: A conservative treatment approach may be appropriate [1]

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1858-1859

  Jacobs, Frédéric M ^a   Prat, Dominique ^a   Petit, Fanny ^a   Smadja, Claude ^a   Brivet, François G ^a  

^a HÔPITAL ANTOINE BÉCLÈRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUININE;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; HUMAN; LETTER; MALARIA; MALE; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN RUPTURE; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY;

ADULT; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; SPLEEN; SPLENIC RUPTURE;

EID: 20444401574     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/430446     Document Type: Letter

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